Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-03
THE STYLES IN FURS.
ONE OF THE ARTICLES APPRECI-
ATED BY MEN.
dow the Most Fashionable Sealskin
Jackets Are Being Made-Long Boas Very
Popular and Will be Much worn-Fox-
skins in Place of Blankets for Beds.

The New York girl has as set ideas as
to the places where certain things should
come from as she has in regard to that
wonderful cachet which this year she
calls smartness and last year she called
style. The real New Yorker buys GER
tain things at certain places, and unless
they come from these wonderful maya
sins they are without flavor. Her sweets
she insists shall be from Maillard's, her
jewels from Tiffany's, her round hats
from Dunlap's or Knox's, her gowns
from Mrs. Whites and her furs from
Gunther's. She looks with disdain upon
any less aristocratic places, and the fact
of anything coming from any but these
temples of high caste will forever con-
denim even the most charming garment
in the eyes of the girl of the metropolis.
The appreciation of furs, like that Of
fine laces or diamonds, is the result of
education. An ignorant woman cannot
admire a fine fur; that is, from the
standpoint of connoisseur. She may
like it because it costs so much, but why
it costs this is matter of which she is
perfectly ignorant; and the beautiful
standings, the exquisite softness and the
charming result of the fur are something
she never stops to consider. She wears
a seal wrap because seal wrap is fash
ionable; but she does not understand
that this wonderful fur tones down all
the high color, brings out all the fine
tints of her complexion, makes brighter
the FURNISH on her hair and in every
way tends to make her more charming
in appearance.
1t is funny thing that men who think
diamonds great nonsense, who speak of
rose point as "f1imsy stuff" and CASH
mere shawl as dull, dingy rag" have
keen appreciation of seal and sable,
and quite understand why women should
want them. 1t is very good that men do
like them, because the woman who knows
does want furs and the woman who does
not know also wants them because the
other woman has them.
Seal skin is now dyed as dark as 1t is
possible to get it, and is shown in every
shape, from the long wrap which covers
the entire body to the short jacket which
is immensely jaunty, but only suited to a
young girl. The most chic seal jacket
bears the very pretty name of "Mar-
quise." 1t fits closely in the back, as well
indeed as any tailor-made cloth coat, and
has loose jacket fronts that flare aside
and show underneath a Persian vest.
The collar is very high, the sleeves close
fitting, without cuffs, and with this is
carried black Persian muff. Black
Persian, by the. bye, is often very map
propriately called Astrachan; it is moth
ing of the kind.
There are three varieties of fur that
are regularly misnamed. Astrachan is a
black, very glossy fur, with long, wide,
irregular crimp; Persian, the skin of the
Persian lumb, is a closely curled glossy
fur, while Russian lamb is much more
closely curled and is quite dull in color.
A very chic long wrap is of gray velvet
lined throughout with the fur of the
Mandarin lamb. This fur is at least
three inches long, snow white, and falls
in long curls The collar and the cuffs are
of the fur, and band of it is down the
front. Such wrap is worn by Miss
Terry, although her wrap has, for the
outside, dark green serge.
The long boas of all the fancy furs are
very fashionable and usually extremely
becoming. Blue fox is colored so that it
becomes an absolutely steel blue. Black
fox, wolverine IA fluffy, wiry fur of
rich dark brown shaded; badger, a creamy
fur with flecks of black upon it; red fox,
inasmuch as it is almost deep yellow;
silver fog, black lynx, mink and CHINA
mon bear, which is light brown shade
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and muffs to match. The boas, by
the bye, are sufficiently long to come
to the edge of the skirt, and the
fashionable girl is an adept in wearing
them, knowing how to toss them just so
they will be becoming. Sling wraps of
leopard skin are shown and they already
have cachet given them by Mrs. Lang
try being. seen wearing one the other
afternoon in her victoria. Sable, like
rose point and rubies, is always fashion
able, and the wise woman is she who
saves up all the money she would other
wise spend for sweetmeats, adds to it
any other little hoard that is possible,
and gets one season the muff and the
next the collar.
Beautiful furs are also having show
ing in the bedroom, and very fashionable
women have white fox skins folded and
laid at the foot of the bed, that, when
night time comes, are laid over the en-
broidered spread, and quite take the
place otherwise given to blankets. In a
beautiful bedroom that | know of a
white fox cover is at the foot of the bed
and, on chair near by, for fear the
pretty sleeper might grow chilly in the
night, is wonderful spread of Hudson
bay sable. Tigers are wonderfully
mounted and thrown on the floor, the
heads so perfectly stuffed and the teeth
so very natural that one feels sure ner-
vous child would live in terror, as far as
entering the room after dark is concerned
Blue fox is, l am sure the very best
halo for woman, and long seal wrap,
trimmed with blue fox, would make even
the Princess de Metternich handsome.
She is the wonderful woman who said
that her lack of beauty was so great that
she became unique and, like other wo-
men, very clever one here in New
York. always thought her ugliness
was like that of Japanese teapot--it had
a special attraction of its own.
They say: That picture hats, that is,
hats that look most charming in photo
graphs and which one would not care to
wear on the street, are in the wardrobes
of all women who are generous with
their photos. These women, it may be
mentioned, are usually the ones who look
better on the negative paper than they
do in reality,
That even Mrs. Cleveland approves of